Comments on: There Will Be Blood http://traxus4420.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/there-will-be-blood/ Undressing the world, one garment at a time Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:17:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Survival Horror « American Stranger http://traxus4420.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/there-will-be-blood/#comment-2305 Survival Horror « American Stranger Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:34:36 +0000 http://traxus4420.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/there-will-be-blood/#comment-2305 [...] in Hostel torture is just a business. The Dark Knight’s Joker,There Will Be Blood’s Plainview, and No Country For Old Men’s Chigurh all borrow the trope: the ’00s were the age of [...] [...] in Hostel torture is just a business. The Dark Knight’s Joker,There Will Be Blood’s Plainview, and No Country For Old Men’s Chigurh all borrow the trope: the ’00s were the age of [...]

]]> By: Tim Morrison http://traxus4420.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/there-will-be-blood/#comment-1614 Tim Morrison Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:23:29 +0000 http://traxus4420.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/there-will-be-blood/#comment-1614 Wow...I stumbled upon this website to read the analogies of bumbling idiots. TWBB is about capitalism as much as Boogie nights was about porn. Your insight needs a 101 lesson. Wow…I stumbled upon this website to read the analogies of bumbling idiots. TWBB is about capitalism as much as Boogie nights was about porn. Your insight needs a 101 lesson.

]]> By: Patrick J. Mullins http://traxus4420.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/there-will-be-blood/#comment-1603 Patrick J. Mullins Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:10:54 +0000 http://traxus4420.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/there-will-be-blood/#comment-1603 I just see the 'i'm finished' as the end of Day Lewis's execrable onscreen jerking-off. I'm glad to have read nothing at all anywhere before watching this. (but your post makes me dread watching 'Old Men' now, which I have in my possession as well right now.) And I find since last night from both the ballet board and ktismatics that it was perfectly OBVIOUS to many people that John Huston was being invoked. I also did not know that Anderson of the excellent Boogie Nights and the filthy Magnolia was the director: It turns out that the only non-pornographic film of the 3 of his I've seen was ABOUT porno. The plague of plastic toads is total porno, and ruins everything retroactively in the film, although you can remember details other people did well in that movie (esp, Tom Cruise is great here). But Plainview is always Daniel Day Lewis processing himself into history in so obvious a way that one finds a new 'synthetic history' to have evolved during the very viewing of the film. The 'I'm finished' is the end of Day Lewis's febrile and embarassing performance art, because there's nothing else. What a fucking con this performance is. The Huston he's imitating in Chinatown was never separated from his character's corruption. Day Lewis is ALWAYS separated, never once becomes the character. It does remind me in its beautiful photography of Texas not only of 'Dillinger' from 1973 but also of 'Paris, Texas', which, however, is a great film. TWBB simply doesn't exist. It is easily one of the worst films I've ever seen, along with 'Magnolia', 'Carrie', 'The Eyes of Laura Mars' and 'Other Voices, Other Rooms',. And his NYTimes Sunday Mag spread should make him the New Rita Hayworth or something. I just see the ‘i’m finished’ as the end of Day Lewis’s execrable onscreen jerking-off. I’m glad to have read nothing at all anywhere before watching this. (but your post makes me dread watching ‘Old Men’ now, which I have in my possession as well right now.) And I find since last night from both the ballet board and ktismatics that it was perfectly OBVIOUS to many people that John Huston was being invoked. I also did not know that Anderson of the excellent Boogie Nights and the filthy Magnolia was the director: It turns out that the only non-pornographic film of the 3 of his I’ve seen was ABOUT porno. The plague of plastic toads is total porno, and ruins everything retroactively in the film, although you can remember details other people did well in that movie (esp, Tom Cruise is great here). But Plainview is always Daniel Day Lewis processing himself into history in so obvious a way that one finds a new ’synthetic history’ to have evolved during the very viewing of the film. The ‘I’m finished’ is the end of Day Lewis’s febrile and embarassing performance art, because there’s nothing else. What a fucking con this performance is. The Huston he’s imitating in Chinatown was never separated from his character’s corruption. Day Lewis is ALWAYS separated, never once becomes the character.

It does remind me in its beautiful photography of Texas not only of ‘Dillinger’ from 1973 but also of ‘Paris, Texas’, which, however, is a great film. TWBB simply doesn’t exist. It is easily one of the worst films I’ve ever seen, along with ‘Magnolia’, ‘Carrie’, ‘The Eyes of Laura Mars’ and ‘Other Voices, Other Rooms’,. And his NYTimes Sunday Mag spread should make him the New Rita Hayworth or something.

]]> By: parodycenter http://traxus4420.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/there-will-be-blood/#comment-1105 parodycenter Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:51:01 +0000 http://traxus4420.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/there-will-be-blood/#comment-1105 I refuse to see this film on principle because it's about a rich guy who ended up alone and vacuous because he's rich, and it's simultaneously professing to be MARXIST. I refuse to see this film on principle because it’s about a rich guy who ended up alone and vacuous because he’s rich, and it’s simultaneously professing to be MARXIST.

]]> By: in video veritas » Blog Archive » there will be masks. http://traxus4420.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/there-will-be-blood/#comment-1010 in video veritas » Blog Archive » there will be masks. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:13:22 +0000 http://traxus4420.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/there-will-be-blood/#comment-1010 [...] quote Shaviro provides from American Stranger’s blog seems particularly perceptive, especially in the light of Deleuze & Guattari’s thoughts [...] [...] quote Shaviro provides from American Stranger’s blog seems particularly perceptive, especially in the light of Deleuze & Guattari’s thoughts [...]

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